RE: RE: Missouri garden tour - Mittleider method (2019)
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RE: Missouri garden tour - Mittleider method (2019)

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Good morning. That little wood hut is a block for the leaf cutter bees we use as pollinators in the greenhouse. They're a tiny bee, their length is about the same as the width of a pencil eraser. Because they're so small they can pollinate our cucumber and tomato plants.

Leaf cutter bees are a hiveless bee, so they are quite docile. The block you see in the beginning of our video is where they rear the young. They lay an egg, provide a bunch of pollen for it to eat and enclose both inside a little cocoon made from bits of leaves.

We do have a short video on them.

Maintaining the garden doesn't require much time. When it becomes time to harvest things do get busy. Thank you for your kind words.

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